House Judiciary Committee votes to move abortion bill forward
The House Judiciary Committee on Friday approved Vermont’s controversial abortion bill, H.57, after a week of review.
Statehouse Headliners: New bills deal with crossbow hunting, unsecured firearms, non-citizen voting
Another round of House bills would allow crossbow hunting during bow season, make unsecured firearms a crime, and allow non-citizen voting in Montpelier city elections.
Boston residents operating in Swanton indicted on drugs and guns trading charges
Two Boston residents who temporarily had been living in Swanton were indicted Monday by a federal grand jury on charges related to drug and firearm conspiracy.
Rep. Peter Welch still likes Green New Deal despite controversies, unrealistic goals
Welch called the Green New Deal “a broad outline of ambitious goals” and said Congress over the next two years would be drafting legislation and conducting hearings to make progress toward those goals.
State Headliners: Anti-nuclear Green New Deal hasn’t learned lesson from Vermont
The Green New Deal’s dismissal of nuclear power dooms it to failure as a realistic plan to reduce carbon emissions. Doubters need only look at Vermont, a climate change expert wrote in Forbes Magazine recently.
When Bernie Sanders calls Trump ‘a racist,’ is it defamatory speech?
When someone calls another person a “racist,” as Sen. Bernie Sanders did of President Donald Trump on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, is it considered defamatory speech?
Statehouse Headliners: Unrestricted abortion bill approved in one House committee, goes to another
Human Services approved H.57 Thursday with minor changes and Judiciary is taking testimony today and tomorrow.
Statehouse Headliners: House bills would set up gender-segregated school facilities for ‘transgender’ students, turn prisons into mental health clinics
New House legislation includes bills that would allow “transgender students” access to gender-separated school facilities, programs and activities, ban the use of “eminent domain” seizure of land for natural gas pipelines, and further decriminalize the use of mind-altering drugs.
Statehouse Headliners: Senate bills would ban fossil fuel pipelines, ‘fracking’ waste disposal
Natural gas is the “cleanest” fossil fuel from a greenhouse gas perspective. Alternatives to home heat in Vermont include heating oil and split wood. Cleaner alternatives include passive solar, heat pumps and wood pellets.
New bills would ban natural gas pipelines and above-ground fuel tanks
“This is a problem for more than 65 percent of Vermont homes and businesses that have an above-ground storage tank, and presumably would want to replace it so they can continue to use oil, kerosene and propane to stay warm,” Cota said.
Statehouse Headliners: Retail marijuana bill introduced in VT House today; Senate bill prepped for committee vote
The House introduced a retail marijuana bill on Friday while a similar Senate bill was being prepped for a committee vote. Neither bill would set taxes high enough to cover costs expected by the Marijuana Commission.
Vermont House committee approves unlimited abortion despite massive public outcry
The House Human Services Committee on Thursday approved unrestricted abortion following a packed public hearing Wednesday at which many Vermonters decried late-term abortions as barbaric and inhumane.